Learn how to conduct a full analysis of healthcare datasets using R by analyzing the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a public health surveillance survey.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Introduction to the course
- How to use the exercise files
- US risk factors
- Introduction to the BRFSS
- More on the BRFSS
- What is a descriptive BRFSS analysis?
- Cross-sectional analysis in the BRFSS
- Ethical use of BRFSS data
- BRFSS resources
- Choosing R for a BRFSS analysis: Some considerations
- Choosing R for a BRFSS analysis: More considerations
- Installing R
- Navigating in R
- Installing the foreign package
- Installing necessary packages
- Uses of a data dictionary
- How to set up a data dictionary
- Adding to the data dictionary
- Understanding confounders
- Making a web of causation
- Designing confounders: Age and smoking
- Designing confounders: Other demographics
- Designing confounders: Other variables used in analysis
- Reading in BRFSS XPT data
- Naming conventions
- Keeping native variables
- Applying the first exclusion
- Applying the rest of the exclusions
- Operations in code
- Making a data reduction diagram
- Generating exposure
- Generating outcome variables
- Generating the age variables
- Generating the smoking variables
- Finalizing the analytic data set
- What is Table 1?
- Reviewing categorical variable distribution
- Reviewing continuous variable distribution
- Preparing categorical Table 1 shell
- Preparing continuous Table 1 shell
- Adding overall frequencies to categorical Table 1
- Making a frequency macro
- Adding overall frequencies to continuous Table 1
- Completing categorical Table 1
- Completing continuous Table 1
- Three truths about using weights
- Conducting a descriptive weighted analysis
- Why conduct bivariate tests?
- Adding categorical bivariate tests to Table 1
- Introduction to ANOVA and linear regression code
- Adding continuous bivariate tests to Table 1
- Review of the metadata
- Uses of metadata
- Review of the process
- Next steps in the BRFSS analysis
Taught by
Monika Wahi